A brand new weblog from the parents at EA Sports outlines the “Road to Glory” mode, during which you’re taking a participant from highschool all through their faculty profession. Loads of the small print we already knew, or assumed can be within the sport like signing taking part in your method from recruit to starter, or inking NIL offers — however there’s some wild parts we by no means noticed coming.
In addition to the apparent significance of managing well being, grades, and relationship with coaches comes an entire system of “dilemmas” it’s important to navigate — and this contains deciding whether or not you or not it’s best to channel your internal Kevin Durant and make a burner account to defend your self in opposition to on-line criticism.
“There may also be conditions the place you might be taking part in poorly and the followers are simply letting you’ve got it. You’ll should decide on the way you need to reply. Do you need to take the excessive highway? Criticize them? Make a burner and be your greatest hype man?”
The seems to be a three-tier system of response, every with their very own professionals and cons. Obviously brushing it off wouldn’t trigger any criticism, however bottling up your emotions might produce other penalties — whereas going as far as to create a burner might result in you getting caught and your rep taking successful because of this.
We’ve seen faux social media integration in sports activities video games lots over time, however historically that is restricted to commerce information or broad mentions of your character. This takes it to an entire different stage.
Another dilemma that EA mentioned of their weblog was balancing your participant’s picture with their lecturers.
“Some dilemmas will current precise conflicts, akin to being requested to attend an off-campus occasion. Attending the occasion might improve your model by boosting your social presence, however it might additionally require you to skip your night time class. There is a danger related to this determination; getting caught skipping class might negatively impression your GPA, which could have an effect on your educational standing and eligibility.”
This is the precise type of factor folks needed to see out of the sport, and it might result in some completely unimaginable screenshots and moments, assuming there are sufficient random encounters that everybody’s playthrough is completely different.
We’ll know extra when the sport is launched subsequent week.
